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Keeping The Windows Vista User Folder Clean

by Aaron Parker on September 18, 2008

in Windows

Because I’m a stickler for clean UI, I want to ensure users don’t see extra files or folders in their User folder on Windows Vista. I’m trying to avoid something similar to what you can see in the screenshot below, which looks a little out of place:

This location in the UI replaces the Documents folder [...]

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Disk Usage Display Improvement In Windows Vista

by Aaron Parker on May 28, 2008

in Windows

I’ve stumbled across a nice usability improvement in Windows Vista that had escaped me until today – the display of free disk space. Of course this feature has been in Windows Explorer since Windows 95, but the improvement in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 is the reporting of disk space when a drive is [...]

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Set Default Formats for New Office Documents from Windows Explorer

by Aaron Parker on December 20, 2007

in Deployment

If you’re deploying Office 2007 and haven’t yet standardised on the new file formats, you’re probably already aware of how to set the default file formats via Group Policy, or using the Office Customization Tool to set the defaults before installing Office.
There’s another avenue to creating new Office documents that I hadn’t thought about until [...]

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